Caravan Traders is a cut throat card game of desert trading! You need to safely transport your goods to the market so you can earn a profit and to embarrass your fellow merchants with your vast wealth. Each round, each merchant places their investments into the caravan. Players must then either pay the cost to prevent the many misfortunes that could befall the caravan or solicit donations from the other merchants to help protect your investments. But remember, though you all may travel on the same caravan, not all merchants are out to help. Merchants may lie in order to gain a profit or set out to burn the caravan to the ground!
Caravan Traders is a game I made for Game Design 1 at the NYU Game Center with Tamarah Cunningham, Jing Zhao, and Ben Poland. We were tasked with making a game that involved shared investments and would provoke feelings of betrayal. If you're interested, you can download all the materials for the game, print it out, and play it at home.